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04-12-2012, 06:08 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Thoughts on the Hofner Verythin??
Saw you were using one. Is it one of the new CTs?
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04-13-2012, 10:53 AM
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Endorsing Artist, D'addario Strings | | Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Outside Pittsburgh, PA | | | Ooh. I somehow missed these until now. Pretty!! I’ve been wanting to get a Galaxie bass for a while now because they’re just kind of weird. And they come in green. :^)
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04-13-2012, 11:19 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Grolsch Strap Locks | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New York City | | | I have been dying to try a Verythin!! |
04-13-2012, 01:11 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Chester, Pa.,USA | |  Watsit?
(BTW, not a very inspired name, Verythin. Are you kidding me? LOL)
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04-13-2012, 01:14 PM
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04-13-2012, 03:06 PM
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Endorsing Artist, D'addario Strings | | Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Outside Pittsburgh, PA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by C.Linton  (BTW, not a very inspired name, Verythin. Are you kidding me? LOL) | Look at the side view picture. The name appears to be VERY inspired!! He he he.
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04-13-2012, 06:02 PM
| | | | No, mine's a '64.
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04-13-2012, 06:32 PM
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04-13-2012, 08:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Chester, Pa.,USA | | | Nice. I like it. Never seen or heard of it before.
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02-13-2013, 06:08 PM
|  | Bassmeister | | Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Bartlett, IL | | | The Höfner CT 500/7 Verythin isnt FULLY hollow...it does have a block in there to give some sustain.
Word on the street is to go with Thomastic Infeld Jazz flatwound 32's...
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02-13-2013, 06:36 PM
| | | | Mine is a '64 or '65. I use it a lot now. Very special. Super delicate and finicky, but I use it about 80% much as my Starfire, Club, Eko, or Vox Cougar.
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02-14-2013, 08:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Houston, TX | | Quote:
Originally Posted by meursault42 |
Man, talk about a lightweight! Be interesting to play one though.
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02-16-2013, 04:12 PM
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Originally Posted by jmjbassplayer Mine is a '64 or '65. I use it a lot now. Very special. Super delicate and finicky, but I use it about 80% much as my Starfire, Club, Eko, or Vox Cougar. | I feel like a '64/65 Verythin must be an exceptionally rare bird. I didn't even know that such a thing existed to be honest. Do you use the Pyramid flats on it?
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02-16-2013, 04:13 PM
| | | | No, but mine has some old-ass super dead rounds I've never changed since I bought it quite a few years a go.
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02-16-2013, 04:22 PM
| | Registered User | | | | | old dead rounds are so awesome. wish there was a way to buy them that way. hmm, maybe i should post a classified. send me your "crappy" old rounds that you were planning to toss out...
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02-17-2013, 03:35 AM
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Originally Posted by meursault42 old dead rounds are so awesome. wish there was a way to buy them that way. hmm, maybe i should post a classified. send me your "crappy" old rounds that you were planning to toss out... |
...maybe this'll help>>>
I have a short scale '60s Les Paul Recording bass (heaviest bass known to man in the known world FWIW) and I had just bought a set of tape wounds for it, but the store ( McCabes in Santa Monica) was out of the short scale size so I bought the long scale set.
I got home to put 'em on and the freekin E breaks at the winding post immediately ($60 bucks btw...) so I scrounge around and find the forgotten short scale Kingston bass in the closet and grab the low E but it's a bright and shiny round wound and I need this thing strung up for an audition in an hour so I put on my thinking cap and... open the fridge.
I grabbed some yogurt and smeared it into the string. That took off some of the top but it was still too bright then I ran my gooked up hand along the baseboard (BASS board?) and smear in some human remains of dead skin and the cat hair junk that collects in such places. Getting closer to the sound now but still not dead enough... Back in the fridge I pulled out the big hunk of pork shoulder I had just bought and cut off the outer flab/fat/skin piece and run it up and down the length of the string like a fine BBQ rub.
The perfect dead E string sound was achieved with this very scientific convergence of inspiration, perspiration and desperation. I've had that same sting on there for a few years now and everyone always asks me why it looks different than the others... it's great seeing the look on their face when I tell them the reason! |
02-21-2013, 02:59 PM
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Originally Posted by meursault42 old dead rounds are so awesome. wish there was a way to buy them that way. hmm, maybe i should post a classified. send me your "crappy" old rounds that you were planning to toss out... | you should be able to get old strings on TB without a problem! 
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02-21-2013, 03:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Santa Monica, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bottomend! I put on my thinking cap and... open the fridge.
I grabbed some yogurt and smeared it into the string. That took off some of the top but it was still too bright then I ran my gooked up hand along the baseboard (BASS board?) and smear in some human remains of dead skin and the cat hair junk that collects in such places. Getting closer to the sound now but still not dead enough... Back in the fridge I pulled out the big hunk of pork shoulder I had just bought and cut off the outer flab/fat/skin piece and run it up and down the length of the string like a fine BBQ rub. | lol! you should just keep taking this idea as far as you can. ask roscoe's chicken n waffles if you can store your E strings as a grease catcher under their fryers.
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02-22-2013, 11:29 AM
| | | | I took a set of DR bootzillas (heavy gauge) and boiled them in water mixed with a little Sriracha hot sauce for about 10 minutes. aged them nicely. |
02-22-2013, 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted by brad houser I took a set of DR bootzillas (heavy gauge) and boiled them in water mixed with a little Sriracha hot sauce for about 10 minutes. aged them nicely. | Sriracha, it's not just for breakfast anymore! 
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